- As you work with many of the animation presets,…you'll often find that the animation is pretty short,…typically between four and five seconds.…But this is easy to manipulate.…All you need to do is reveal the keyframes…and then pull them out a bit,…which, let me show you how to do.…In After Effects here, I'm going to press Command…or Control 0 to go back to the project panel…and open up this next movie.…Let's hide a couple of these columns here,…just so we can see a little less what's going on,…and more room in the timeline.…

And let's press Play to watch this.…Well, what we have here is a couple of different…noise patterns moving around to create a background.…It's pretty cool, let's break that apart.…All right, here's that bottom layer,…and you'll notice, no keyframes when I press U.…Well, let's press UU to see what's going on.…In this case, it's a fractal,…and it's using the fractal noise plug-in.…

So what's happening here is the transform property…and the overall evolution.…Now, if you can't see enough of what's going on,…

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10/9/2015

In video, saving time on the simple tasks means you've got more energy left for the hard ones. Luckily, many effects and animations can be automated in After Effects, thanks to its robust effects and presets engine. In this course, you'll learn how to use existing presets, design custom effects and save them as presets, and save time with a variety of built-in animations that most users miss. Author Rich Harrington also shows how to install third-party presets, share and back up your presets, and organize them on your hard drive.